Then. Lyn Smith majored in education at Akron University but says he would have wound up in jail had he...
The 50th anniversary of the Ford Mustang will be celebrated at the 2014 Silverstone Classic, scheduled for 25-27 July at...
The 2013 Goodwood Revival, held 13-15 September at the 2.4-mile Goodwood Motor Circuit in West Sussex, England, honored the 50th anniversary of the Ford GT40 with a daily parade and the Whitsun Trophy race exclusively reserved for GT40s. The race marked the first time that a dedicated competition has been...
The Fordwater Trophy race at the 2013 Goodwood Revival was held Sunday, September 15th at the 2.4-mile Goodwood Motor Circuit...
Qualifying for the exclusively Ford GT40 race at the 2013 Goodwood Revival was held under wet conditions that made the...
The Whitsun Trophy race at the 2013 Goodwood Revival was held Saturday, September 14th at the 2.4-mile Goodwood Motor Circuit in West Sussex, England. This year’s Saturday feature race showcased a grid exclusively made up of Ford GT40 variants, in celebration of the model’s 50th anniversary. The one-model Whitsun Trophy...
Brian RedmanPhoto: John Zimmermann Honored with his own night by the Road Racing Drivers Club this year at Long Beach,...
Alberto Ascari Ayrton SennaPhoto: Maureen Magee 1 The Ford Sierra Cosworth is homologated for Group A Touring Car racing (1987)....
Living in Southern California, we’re admittedly pretty jaded when it comes to the classic cars we see on the road, on a day-to-day basis. Porsches, Ferraris, Cobras (real and re-imagined) for sure, but even exotic pre-war machinery. It’s like living in an alternate dimension when you see a Type 35...
Knott’s Berry Farm, Buena Park, CA April 21, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...
Tim McGrane is the Executive Director of the Blackhawk Automotive Museum in Danville, California. VR: How did you get started in cars? I assume as a child. You grew up in the UK, correct? TM: I did. I grew up in Kent, southeast England about two miles from Brands Hatch....
The over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953-1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962-1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. This included racing in the great endurance races such as the...
Dan Gurney’s All American Racers has been entrusted by The Henry Ford Museum with the conservation of the 1967 Le...
Parnelli JonesPhoto: John Zimmermann This year marks the 50th anniversary of Parnelli Jones’ 1963 Indianapolis 500 victory. That win, from...
The late Gianni Agnelli’s favorite cars went on show at the Museum of the Automobile in Turin, Italy, on March 12, which would have been his 92nd birthday, and will be on display until June 2. Agnelli, who died 10 years ago, was one of the two grandsons of Giovanni...
The 1936 Duesenberg SJN (Supercharged) and the 1968 Ford GT40 “#1075” won the Best In Show honors on Sunday, March...
Mecum Auctions’ record-setting 10-day auction, held January 18-27, broke the record for the largest collector car auction, based on the...
Roy Brown Jr.—designer of the much maligned, ’50s flop the Ford Edsel—passed away on Feb. 24 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from complications of pneumonia and Parkinson’s Disease. He was 96. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, after World War I, Brown first went to work at GM’s Cadillac Studio before moving...
• RM Auctions’ February 18–19, Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum sale generated more than $9.1 million with 100 percent of all...
Gilles Villeneuve Patrick Tambay 1 Patrick Tambay drives a Ferrari 126C2 to victory in the Grand Prix of San Marino...
Pete Lyons There is no great genius without a trace of madness,” declared the Roman philosopher Seneca, and can we have any doubt he was looking ahead 1.9 millennia to designers of Can-Am racecars? The wonderful old Canadian-American Challenge Cup series of 1966 through 1974 is justly famed for many...
For the first time in his career, Marvin Panch posed for a photo before an event. He would never do...
Phil Remington From hot rods on California’s dry lakes, to the Scarabs (both sports cars and Formula One), to the...
My driving roots were from my Dad and my brother who both raced. I was brought up with and around cars. The day I turned 17, the first thing I did was to go and buy my driving license—it’s what you did back then. You put your money on the...
Without doubt the greatest racing car is one I’ve not driven. I’ll explain later. It’s my hero’s, Jim Clark’s Lotus...
Mike Lawrence Vintage Racecar recently published a letter from John Wright who is a nine of racing anecdotes. John told...
Photo: Art Evans Gildred & Friend Dear Casey, I very much enjoyed the article about Ted Gildred. I learned some things about my friend that I didn’t know. His experiences with Juan Fangio in Argentina reminded me of my own. I spent most of 1968 in South America shooting movies;...
